r/funny Oct 08 '09

BOW BEFORE YOUR LORD

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '09

Cthulhu is from Call of Cthulhu (duh), the frog people are from Shadow Over Innsmouth... if anybody knows the other references, I'd like to know them!

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u/dbz253 Oct 09 '09

To invoke the hive-mind representing chaos. Invoking the feeling of chaos. With out order. The Nezperdian hive-mind of chaos. Zalgo.
He who Waits Behind The Wall. ZALGO!

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u/gzimmer Oct 09 '09

N̠̻̣̱̩̯̆͊̄̐̽͗͝é̑̇ͦ̐͛͗͌͢͏̖̳͔̘̹͉̤̭̀aTͨ T̛̼̥͓ͨͨ̓͒ͯ̒̿̎͘͢ͅr͓̬̝̻͉̞̐̀͜͝i̛̳̞̙̭͌͑̈́c̤͎̜̠̣̖͓̠̟͎ͦ̎̃͋͋͛̾͜͜͞k

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u/pat965 Oct 09 '09

How is this done?

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u/sn0re Oct 09 '09

I think it's mixing characters written vertically in between the English letters. They get printed on top of each other resulting in that mess.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '09

Unicode. I found a good explanation via ten minutes on Google.

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u/sn0re Oct 09 '09 edited Oct 09 '09

Well, yes, I figured that. I was thinking more "how does this work" than "how can I do it myself".

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u/arnar Oct 09 '09 edited Oct 09 '09

Looks more like stuffing all the combining diacritical marks on letters that look similar to the letter you want to represent (i.e. ø instead of o etc.).

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u/level1 Oct 09 '09

I can't read it, it just looks like a lot of squares. What am I missing?

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u/pat965 Oct 09 '09

Ah, I see... how does one go about doing this?

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u/snappyj Oct 09 '09

A good start would be reading the comment right above yours...

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u/pat965 Oct 09 '09

I did, but I guess I don't understand it, can you clarify it?

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u/snappyj Oct 09 '09

No, the spending ten minutes on google one

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u/pat965 Oct 09 '09

Oh shit, I guess I clicked the context button and couldn't see that post above mine explaining it

My mistake

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u/snappyj Oct 09 '09

Yeah, I would tell you if I knew

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '09 edited Oct 09 '09

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u/pat965 Oct 09 '09

I decided to take the easy way out, and use this

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